“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.” - Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, [...]
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There was simply nothing more important to Dr. King and his followers than a guarantee that African Americans would be able to participate in the political decision-making agenda of our nation by being allowed to vote. [...]
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
In a time of war every country must stand at the ready to defend itself. Diplomacy and peacemaking efforts should always be the first course of action. However, we have [...]
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
Dr. King had very high hopes for the youth of America and the youth of the world. He dreamed of young people having an oasis of freedom, justice and equality where their living would be a vehicle to propel the nation [...]
Crime in the nation’s capital is at an all time high. The newspapers are carrying front line stories about murder in Washington. There are few things that happen in Washington that escape the front pages of major news outlets because after all it is the nation’s capital, the heartbeat and the pulse of [...]
“But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast [...]
This site is about remembering one of the greatest human beings in the history of man. The site reintroduces us to the great orator, his humanity and his life’s work of attempting to integrate the human race and to bring one nation to its greatness by realizing the value of all its human resources. [...]
“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of heir lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”
“Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread [...]
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”